Restrict Street Vendors Around Grand Indonesia, Central Jakarta City Government Planning To Build Sky Bridge

Illustration. Street vendors (PKL) sell on Jalan Jati Baru, Tanah Abang, Jakarta, Friday 9 March 2018. (Between-Reni Esnir)

The rise of illegal parking in the Grand Indonesia area cannot be separated from the line-up of street vendors (PKL) selling around them. The DKI Provincial Government plans to move traders.

Head of the Central Jakarta Transportation Sub-dept. (Sudinhub) Wildan Anwar said the DKI Provincial Government will build a multipurpose sky bridge or pedestrian bridge as a place for the relocation of traders around Grand Indonesia.

"For the back up of MSMEs as well as street five, in conclusion, from the Mayor (Central Jakarta) there is a plan to realize the sky bridge on Jalan Kebon Kacang Raya, Grandi Indonesia in 2023 like in Tanah Abang," Wildan told reporters, Wednesday, December 14.

In the near future, the Central Jakarta City Government will seek the approval of the DKI Provincial Government with the DKI Jakarta DPRD to allocate a sky bridge development budget in the Grand Indonesia area.

"The resultant construction already exists. Then, a sky bridge will be built if possible, the budget will be achieved by the leadership and DPRD because this is related to the APBD," said Wildan.

Meanwhile, regarding the control of illegal parking, the Central Jakarta City Government has met residents who own a fairly large area of land, about 1,000 meters. This land, according to Wildan, can be used for official parking locations in the Grand Indonesia area.

"One of the RW administrators named Pak Itok has been invited to chat, there is an empty land managed by local residents. Technically, the operation of the land allows it to be a solution for the parking lot behind GI because it is quite large," said Wildan.

However, Wildan asked the residents to first apply for permits to use their land as an official parking lot and impose tariffs in accordance with Governor Regulation Number 31 of 2017 concerning Parking Service Tariffs.

"The person concerned has not yet made a legal entity. Yesterday, the Parking Management Unit (Dishub) counseling team had conveyed that Pak Itok's parking had to be licensed," said Wildan.

After the permit is taken care of, the Central Jakarta Sub-dept. will help residents provide parking block facilities to ticket procurement. The parking manager must also sign a parking retribution payment agreement for the DKI Provincial Government.

"When the business must have a permit, they provide official retribution shares for each income through a cooperation agreement," he said.